I'm not a user but is there any more details on why it was removed, seems like it would be nice to know more reasoning than "it doesn't fit our (internal/unknown) strategic goals" at IBM. Seems rather sad that a driver can be removed with more detail around why.
Sent from my really tiny device... > On Nov 22, 2013, at 6:49 AM, "Russell Bryant" <rbry...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Greetings, > > The maintainers of the PowerVM driver have proposed that it be removed > from Nova. Their reasons are: > > - it is no longer in line with IBM's strategic direction with OpenStack > > - they are not aware of anyone ever having used the driver (outside of > the team that developed and maintained it) > > The second point is quite important. If anyone is using it that they do > not know of, we need to find out. Normally we would approach something > like this with a phased deprecation plan (mark it deprecated in > Icehouse, remove it in J). There is a non-zero cost to keeping the > code, so if we can remove it immediately, there is some benefit to Nova > development. > > If you have an interest in this driver, please speak now. > > Thanks! > > -- > Russell Bryant > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org > Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack _______________________________________________ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack
